Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in the city of Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, plans to start a new program from next fall that subsidizes all the costs necessary for its students to study abroad.
Its objective is to alter the prevailing mood among Japanese students who do not aspire to study overseas.
"This program will be the first trial of its kind in Japan," a university official said, adding it also aims to demonstrate its uniqueness among domestic universities amid the nation's declining birthrate.